Having put 1200 miles on the nations highways over the past couple of weeks I have had the opportunity to watch a wide selection of drivers. A diverse selection of drivers in various states. And I have to say, you people scare the living crap out of me with the way you drive.
Mind you, I am not a paragon of automotive guidance. But sweet screamin’ jayzus, y’all. Where the hell did you all learn to drive?
Mom’s in their Mom Vans weaving in and out of traffic…going at least 10 mph over the limit…with their sweet little “Baby On Board” stickers. I hope to all that is holy that they left the baby at home if Mom drives like that. Young people doing the same lane to lane drift…must have picked it up from Mom when she had them “On Board.”
People speeding up to pass just so they can take the exit that you are going past…..if they would have stayed at their original speed they could have taken the exit without cutting me off.
I tend to stay in the far right lane…yeah. I am that 5 mph over the speed limit guy. So when you come jetting up behind me….as I am in the right lane….don’t think that I am going to either speed up, or pull off of the road to let you by. Dillweed.
I worked with a guy who always said that he viewed the tickets he got for speeding to be the tax he paid to drive as fast as he wanted. I never rode with him when we had to go to meetings. I like my life a little bit too much.
So, what the frack is it with people on the highways? Why is there such a need for speed? Is it because folks can’t organize their time sufficiently? Is it because folks have over stretched their available time? Help me out here, kids. I would really like to know.
Drop me a note with your ideas. Or your witticisms of my driving at slower speeds. You know how to do it….
4 comments
Comment by Jeff Long on January 1, 2014 at 6:55 pm
The stinging price of a ticket is what keeps me at that five-over limit you mentioned. When we first started coming to Tennessee, I stuck the cruise control right on the speed limit. That was particularly frustrating to the other travelers around me, especially in Ohio where the state-wide limit used to be 65 MPH. (Although perhaps apocryphal, there are many stories of how Ohio State Troopers targeted drivers from Michigan.) Now, I go with traffic but keep keep myself mostly at or below 75 MPH. Knowing how much work it takes to pay a potential multi-hundred dollar ticket keeps me in line for the most part. Speed demons will learn that lesson for themselves.
Comment by Brian Larsson on January 1, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Driving 60K a year, mostly to get to gas plants and field locations, you run across all kinds of drivers. Fortunately, the producers like Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the like, are very safety conscious and don’t suffer fool drivers lightly. There’s a renegade or two out there, but nothing like you’d see on the 95, or the PA Turnpike.
Comment by wormdude@gmail.com on January 1, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Brian, I am not talking about the truckers. I feel sorry for them with the idiots out there who are driving the SUV’s and the Mom Vans, and the sports cars. The guys in the big rigs don’t have a chance in hell with all of the little cars zipping in and out the lanes.
Comment by wormdude@gmail.com on January 1, 2014 at 7:01 pm
Jeff, I am with you concerning the price of the ticket. But I just don’t get how people justify driving like maniacs when they clearly do not know how to control their vehicle at a safe speed, much less at a faster speed.